# Senior Protection Manager (System Strengthening)

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Mae Sot
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.

The Senior Protection Manager (System Strengthening) will lead and support the delivery of high-quality programming, with a strong focus on system strengthening and service transition from CSOs to Thai Government mechanisms.

**Major Responsibilities:**

- Lead the development, updating, and dissemination of multi-sectoral referral SOPs in collaboration with government, NGOs, CBOs, and UN agencies;

- Coordinate with the Senior Protection Manager and Senior Caseworker to maintain, implement, and ensure the effective functioning of referral SOPs;

- Conduct and regularly update comprehensive service mapping across refugee camps, border areas, and Thai district systems;

- Lead mainstreaming of protection principles across all sectors, including health, education, camp management, WASH, and livelihoods;

- Strengthening coordination with camp management agencies, local organization and government authorities to ensure protection concerns are systematically identified and addressed;

- Engage relevant stakeholders and community-based mechanisms to support coordination and implementation of the Thai Government's refugee transition strategy;

- Contribute to the design and implementation of protection services transition plans from CSOs to local government structure;

- Lead system strengthening initiatives to support the transition of protection services to Thai government mechanisms;

- Ensure documentation of lessons learned, best practices, and case studies to inform program learning, donor reporting, and technical guidance.

**Program Management and Development:**

- Develop and manage project spending plans, ensuring expenditures for protection activities remain on track and compliant with IRC and donor requirements;

- Work with Protection and Empowerment Coordinator in business development, proposal development and donor reporting processes;

- Support Protection and Empowerment Coordinator in identifying situations and evidence that contribute to advocacy efforts.

**Program Strategy:**

- Engage with IRC's Technical Advisor on Violence Prevention and Response Unit to provide meaningful technical support and guidance into program design, implementation, and research;

- Analyze trends, risks, and emerging protection issues to inform adaptive programming.

**Partnership and Coordination:**

- Serve as a focal lead for coordination and technical support to partners delivering protection services;

- Represent Protection and Empowerment Program to national and local stakeholders.

**Job Requirements:**

- A university degree in Social Work, Psychology, Law, Humanitarian Assistance, or a related field;

- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in program management, humanitarian assistance, development or protection;

- Strong communication skills in written, verbal and presentation in Thai and English;

- Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting;

- Interpersonal Qualities: works in a teamwork with minimum supervision, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure well;

- Demonstrated experience in critical thinking, analytical, negotiation and public presentation;

- Proven experience in networking and coordinating with the Thai authorities, community based organization and UN agencies;

- Ability to prioritize tasks and work under pressure and remain flexible in fast-paced environments with competing deadlines;

- Computer proficient, with experience using Microsoft Office, PowerBi, Canvas including online communication platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft team.

## Skills

### Required
- Social Work
- Psychology
- Law
- Humanitarian Assistance
- Program Management
- Protection
- Coordination
- Communication
- Analytical
- Negotiation
- Public Presentation
- Thai

### Nice to have
- Karen
- Burmese
- PowerBi
- Canvas
- Zoom
- Microsoft team

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